Thinking about creation in this way, brutal and too-decisive though it may seem, is the process by which the guts of a thing, its valuable force, is made.

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• The gist of the process, what I call the formal or brutal process, lies in the use of very simple geometry, first introduced with force, after one makes sure that the inspiration has arisen from the place, and from the introduction, then, of just enough syncopation into the order, so that it truly fits the necessities of site and place and time, without doing violence to them.claim0.824
  Summarizes the brutal process as force-first geometry, then syncopated adaptation to fit context without violence
• The creation of morphological novelty, biological invention, artistic creation, architectural invention ... may all be understood as products of a relatively simple process of intensifying existing latent centers.claim0.798
  Claim that the emergence of new forms, often considered mysterious, is explainable through repeated intensification of latent structure.
• We hypothesize that a similar 'brutal' and purely geometric process always occurs somewhere in other kinds of unfolding that generate living order — in poetry, dance, social structure, planning, and family relationships.hypothesis0.796
  Extends the brutal geometry thesis beyond architecture into all creative and social domains; acknowledged as not yet confirmed with certainty
• I believe it is a necessary state of mind, without which it is not possible to reach the purity of structure needed to create a living thing.claim0.795
  The indispensability of the gift-to-God intention for creating life in buildings.
• Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.795
  Proposition 4 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the normative and practical conclusion tying individual search for the true self to the creation of a living world.
• The issue is not whether the process will produce living structure if done faithfully — it will — but whether the maker has the stamina and will to keep rejecting versions that lack life.claim0.793
  Alexander's claim that the limiting factor in creating living structure is not method but the maker's persistence.
• When the process is correct, the creation of life follows almost automatically, without effort.claim0.792
• "It is certainly very hard, and perhaps impossible, for mere humans to anticipate and rule out in advance all the disastrous ways the machine could choose to achieve a specified objective."quote0.787
  Russell's statement opening Section 2 articulating the core motivation for the Contemplative AI approach